narratologistn.
/ˌnarəˈtɒlədʒɪst/, U.S. /ˌnɛrəˈtɑlədʒəst/ Literary Theory.
An expert in or student of narratology.
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form-historian1928
form-critic1933
contextualist1936
New Critic1941
style critic1959
Barthesian1966
new historicist1971
narratologist1974
post-structuralist1974
deconstructor1978
Derridean1978
deconstructionist1982
1974 Diacritics 4 iii. 5/1 In S/Z, Barthes had relegated the activities of positivistic narratologists to the prehistory of semiotics.
1984 Times Lit. Suppl. 3 Feb. 105/2 One of the best things that Greimas has done is partly to stabilize the terminology to which narratologists resort.
1995 Guardian 6 Dec. ii. 13/1 Most narratologists would say that all narration is in the first person, whether the ‘I’ is revealed explicitly or not.
2000 Financial Times (Electronic ed.) 10 June Delphine Roux, the new department chair, the right-on narratologist and post-modern Parisienne.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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